'fire breather' is a valid expression in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to a person who performs the dangerous art of breathing fire. For example, "Paul is renowned as one of the greatest fire breathers in the world."
In the interview, however, he was more fanboy than fire breather, rattling off plot points and design elements with the practiced eye of a Sardi's regular.
A winning sports team might be inspired by a fire breather like Vince Lombardi, or a fatherly presence like Joe Torre, or a diffident intellectual type like Bill Belichick.
This one -- "The Garden of Circus Delights," a large-scale mosaic mural with a clown, acrobats and a fire breather -- is in the station below Madison Square Garden at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue.
What makes Mannix's writings so interesting is that he worked as a sword swallower and fire breather in a travelling show in the 1930s, so knew the carnival world intimately.
He said, as a child, he'd dreamt of becoming an astronaut and flirted with the idea of being either a policeman or a fire breather.
There are slackliners, am-dram actors putting on a politically charged show, a fire breather, jugglers, and circle drummers.
In part that subtlety and control have kept him from being better known; audiences and critics want fire breathers.
The "freaks" came in three categories: self-made (the tattooed lady), working acts (sword swallowers, fire breathers, knife throwers) and the natural-born.
Additionally, producers hired fire breathers, jugglers, and bicycle motocross stunt performers for the episode.
He fittingly lit up the main stage as break-dancers and fire breathers encircled the last batch of unfaltering survivors.
In Asheville, the breweries are all local and organic and the sidewalks are filled with jugglers and fire breathers.
